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other important portions of the record of the 12 cases, and it is believed that these materials give a fair picture of the trials, and as full and illuminating a picture as is possible within the space available. Copies of the entire record of the trials are available in the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and elsewhere.
In some cases, due to time limitations, errors of one sort or another have crept into the translations which were available to the Tribunal. In other cases the same document appears in different trials, or even at different parts of the same trial, with variations in translation. For the most part these inconsistencies have been allowed to remain and only such errors as might cause misunderstanding have been corrected.
Volume III of this series is dedicated to the case United States of America vs. Josef Altstoetter, et al. (Case 3). This trial has become known as the Justice Case, because all of the defendants held positions in the Reich system of justice, as officials of the Reich Ministry of Justice or as judges or prosecutors of the Special Courts and the People's Courts.
